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[This post is a little late on the thread going last week on the Erotic Imagination, however, as you will see from my explanation below, I thought it worth

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, May 25, 2000

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[This post is a little late on the thread going last week on the
Erotic Imagination, however, as you will see from my explanation
below, I thought it worth sending along despite its being a bit
"tardy"]

Almost a year and a half ago on the Steiner98 list (October of 1998
to be exact) the subject of the celibacy/sex/love was discussed. At
that time, there was an exceptionally good piece on the context of
eroticism from a spiritual scientific perspective. The author was
Emanuel Blosser. He does not subscribe to this list, so I wrote him
and asked permission to re-post an excerpt. Permission was granted,
and it follows. I believe the ideas stand on their own. Emanuel
assures me that he will be checking the archives at "eGroups" and
will thereby decide whether or not to join the conversation.
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Now sex stands with thinking in our perceptual life in a unique way. As
thinking appears in our ordinary consciousness it always has its concept
united with its percept. (unlike these words on this screen where you
perceive the colored marks and get the concept of their meaning from
somewhere else) In sexiness, an object, butts, breasts, bananas,
bicycles, biceps,
Bare-Naked-Ladies, etc., is always taken out of its "natural" context
and placed into
a sexual context. Suggestion is the key to sexiness. Sex is a suggestion
of a percept not an actual percept. There is one way to look at a leg and it
is just a leg. Then there is another look and it suggests something far more
interesting but perceptually it is still the same leg. Sexiness gets added
to perceptions connecting them to another reality. It is not a conceptual
reality although we do think and conceptualize our sexual activity. It
is not a feeling reality although we relate ourselves to it with
sympathies and antipathies. Rather it is one place in ordinary
consciousness where the
soul force of will becomes conscious. "Suggestion" is a force that
starts movement and "action".

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